CVE-2011-1095 Information

Description

locale/programs/locale.c in locale in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.13 does not quote its output which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted localization environment variable in conjunction with a program that executes a script that uses the eval function.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330923 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/21 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/22 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/08/8 http://secunia.com/advisories/43830 http://secunia.com/advisories/43976 http://secunia.com/advisories/43989 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201011-01.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1025286 http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11904 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11904 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=patch;h=026373745eab50a683536d950cb7e17dc98c4259 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:178 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0412.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0413.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0863 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625893 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A12272